Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-24
LOCAL BREyITIES.

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The Warde theatrical company left for
Oakland yesterday morning.
A special silk train was forwarded to the
East from San Francisco last evening.
The excursionists returned from their
/ trip to Mount Shasta about A. NJ. yester-
day, and were evidently greatly pleased
with their observations and experiences.
The Governor has commissioned the fol-
lowing Notaries Public: E. o. Miller, vi
salia; w. L. Williams, Navarro Ridge,
Mendocino county; James Johnson, Mo-
desto.
In Department Two of the Superior
Court yesterday Fred Glueck, native of
Germany, was admitted to citizenship. on
the testimony OF II. Scheunert and B.
Steinauer.
Officer Mccormack arrested last night a
Chinaman named All Hing for an assault
! to murder Sui Gong, whom he cut with a
| a knife few nights ago during a dispute
over gaming matter.
Rhody McGraw applied at the station
house yesterday for protection, declaring
that several persons were trying to poison
him, and laboring under the belief that he
had taken some OF the poison.
The railroad company are about to erect
another boiler-shop at their works in this
city, not far from the present shop, which
is too small for the work to be reformed in
it. The new building viii be 60 by 100
feet
The letter box on the lamp-post in front
of the old Catholic Church, at Seventh and
k streets, has been moved to the southwest
corner of the street, where it is attached to
one OF the awning posts of the Capital
Hotel.
A twe-year-old son of Grant Covell, re-
siding on Nineteenth street, between NJ
and n, got hold of bottle containing
poison on Sunday and drank little of it.
the result being that it was with difficulty
his life was saved.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 500, 60 cooler than the mean
average temperature for that day during
nine years. The highest and lowest tenn
perature was 71o and 500, with fresh TO
brisk southerly wind and clear to fair
weather.
The Italian arrested by officer Able Satur-
day morning on suspicion of insanity, was
examined by the Commissioners of Lunacv
yesterday, and committed to the Asylum
at Stockton, to which institution he was
| conveyed last evening by Ben. Chambers,
oSPNApHSN W Tic OucIlu lOI lUG purpose.
large and powerfully built man named
Mcdonald, was arrested last night by Off
GERS Able and FraZee on charge of bat
terry, preferred by Mrs. Mary Ketchum,
proprlepess of clearinghouse at Third
and X streets, who complained that he-a
ledger in her house-beat her very severely
last Friday night.
Charles Lenoir, Sr., father of the Lenoir
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| died at his residence, SIS NJ street. last
evening about S o'clock quite suddenly
from an attack of apoplexy. He was a ma
| tive OF pennsylvania, and had about at
tanned the allotted age of three score
| years and ten." His health has been quite
good lately, and he partook of good sup
per.
Edward +. Breese who was run over near
the Summit early Sunday morning by sew
eral cars of freight train, as mentioned in
the last issue of the RECORD UNION, was
brought down from Truckee on yesterday
mornings passenger train, en- route to his
home in San Francisco, accompanied by
his father, who went up to Truckee Sun
day by special train, and DR.. Miller, of
that place.
These arrests were made yesterday ::
Chung Ming, by Deputy Sheriff Eldred,
for refusing to pay his poll tax; Mrs. Nc
Vey, by officers Lowell and Farrell, for dis
turbing the peace Andy Walker, by officer
Lowell, for being drunk Frank Larue, by
officer Frazee, for being drunk; All Hing.
by officer Mccormack, for an assault to
murder; - Mcdonald, by officers Able and
Frazee, for battery.
Deputy Sheriff Riley, of San Francisco,
brought up last evening, en- route to the
| State Prison at Folsom, John (alias "Kid'')
| Waters, who is to serve term OF seven
years for burglary. Waters lived in Sac
ramento at one time, and was convicted
| about five years ago of burglary, in stealing
two chests of carpenters tools from houses
that were being erected at Eighth and NJ
streets, and received sentence of three years
at Fo som.
a crowd of several hundred persons as
sembled at Seventh and X streets between
5 and 6 o'clock last evening, to witness the
efforts made TO pull down the tower of the
old st. Rose Church building. The con-
tractors employees had removed the sup
ports of the tower as far as practicable
and then line was attached to it from a
windlass on Seventh street, near Pioneer
Hall, the intention being to pull the tower
over into the church, the roof of which
has been removed, as well as a portion of
the walls. The structure was put up so
solidly, however, that the first line parted,
without movement on the part of the
tower. Another, much stronger was then
used, but it also broke, and the spectators
finally had to dispense, unrewarded for the
time they had spent.